"Man-caused disasters" is really catchy and I am certain it's going to stick.

All we need to do is change the words of things. For example, take the concept of giving free money to poor people that encourages them not to work. Let's call that "welfare." Because welfare is a good word. That'll change everything.

I would do the same thing. Why allow my predecessor, he whom I'm trying to visibly break policies if not actually break policies, control the dialogue? I control the vocabulary, I control the dialogue. Now, respect mah authoritah!

I never cared much for the term terrorists. These ne'er do wells are more annoying than terrorizing, therefore we will call them annoyingists.

I hereby declare, as ruler of my own realm, all man-made catastrophists, planners, plotters, master minds, undergratuate minds, and freshman minds for that matter, all agents provocateurs working counter to the harmony of my world shall henceforth be termed annoyingists. Let it be written.

The Surge was a word used to convey the thought that the new tactic was a temporary increase in the number of Boots on the Ground. In action those additional troops were used to hold and occupy an area after the Marines had conquered the area from the many thousands of well armed (by Iran)Al Queada fighters in house to house frontal assaults in each town. The miracle was that Bush and his Pentagon Boys admitted failure of their old strategy, and that this surge happened at the same moment that the Sunni Sheiks were fed up that the army of Al Queada thugs that they had welcomed at first and were then starting to kill off the local Sheik's families in order to take over the control of the Oil from the local Iraqi the day that the USA Dems surrendered Iraq to them.(Blood for Oil bigtime). Now "Surge" has no application to the increase of troop levels in Afghanistan, and everyone knows that. But the news media still pretend that Obama has tried another Surge. You CANNOT compare the Afghanistan Mountains to the River flood plain cities of Iraq. There is no oil at stake in the Afghan mountain areas either. The only goals in Afghanistan are to threaten the Iran Mullahs, and to keep Pakistan and its nukes out of Al Queada'a hands. The Al Queada guys can keep their Mountains to hide out in forever, while we Bypass them, but continue to bomb them. No more Peleliu type offensives are needed to look good in the NYT while actually trying to prove the Dems were right about us being the losers to Al Queada.

Can anybody name all of the "policy" changes instituted in the first 70 days of the Reagan, Bush, Sr., Clinton, or G.W. administrations.

Here are some of the policy changes Bush instituted during his first 100 days in office. The best thing he did was reject the Kyoto Treaty. The worst thing was his massive spending bill. It's also interesting that Bush's budget included the biggest spending increase ever for education.

Wait a minute, Traditional. Are you saying that Afghanistan has no geopolitical significance whatsoever and is impossible to hold militarily because it has no infrastructure, no real institutions, and basically isn't even a functioning state?

Don't let those inconvenient facts get in the way of your grandstanding, nutty leftists.

There's Yon and then there's a steep drop to second place and I don't know who that could be. He's the only correspondent to spend weeks or months out with the grunts enduring the same dangers and hardships.

Seven... The preferred strategy for the Afghan/pakistan Mountainous areas is to By-pass and Bomb. The necessity to Raid behind the lines to keep a taliban/Al Queada offensive off balance will need troops. But the isolating and by-passing is our favored outcome.Frontal assaults on an enemy's Mountain Fortress hideout would be another Peleliu or Iwo Jima or Kennesaw Mountain none of which we need to waste our Military upon, unless we are chosing to lose the war. But we also don't want the Bad Guys to re-deploy to Sudan right away either.

It will sink in eventually, but right now the Obamaniacs I know are all obsessively watching the Will Ferrel Bush show on HBO. Anything to delay the inevitable. One day, the hoopla will fizzle out and they will have to contemplate what they have wrought.

There's Yon and then there's a steep drop to second place and I don't know who that could be. JD Johannes is pretty good. He hasn't embedded as much as Yon but his Outside the Wire DVDs are worth the watch. Bill Roggio has spent a fair amount of time embedded but Yon is the best.

PWS -- My love for Bill Clinton has grown so over the last couple months. The country's in a recession? Great, let's pass a law, NAFTA, that creates limitless opportunity for commercial expansion. Also, I'm going to do my level best to deliver on my campaign promises.

Obama hasn't caught onto the part about increasing opportunity for commercial expansion. Can't quite wrap his head around how it all works. That's why he's going to fail.

Summoning one of the most memorable moments of the Bush presidency, Mr. Stewart then showed a mocked up photograph of Mr. Obama in a pilot’s flight suit on the deck of an aircraft carrier under a banner proclaiming, “Redefinition Accomplished.”

As tg says, the surge was a temporary increase in the number of troops in Iraq, like an electrical surge is a pulse of additional voltage or current. It's transient by definition.

No. And this is a common misunderstanding by the Left. The Surge was not just about increasing boots on the ground, it was a radical change in tactics - primarily, living amoungst the locals instead of behind fortress walls.

Look up COIN if you're genuinely interested in learning what you don't know.

"The point of the column was about the language they are using and it noted that even in changing language, in a lot of cases theyare keeping the policies. Moreover, the piece doesn't judge whether heshould or should not change them; it only observes that he's keeping a lotof them."

A "person caused Disaster" must be Newspeak for a "person planned and carried out attack". The painless way to see no evil is to think that disasters are an act of a careless good persons, sort of like calling everything "Pilot Error" and letting AIG insure it.That is making Orwell a Prophet indeed.On December 7, 1941 the Japanese Navy had Pilot Error. Now don't we all feel better.

Oh, come on. The guy's already had almost 73 days.Hahahah, I remember a commenter here amusingly predicted that the liberal excuse making for Obama would preceed in chronological order as "He's only had 50 days", "Look, he's only had 100 days", "Hey, he's only had one year to clean up Bush's mess", "Hey, you can't expect someone to clean up Bush's mess in one term", and so on ad infinitum.

Interesting take on the new language, traditional guy. Personally, I see the language change as one which is ultimately meant to reinforce our connection to our planet, Earth.

Not one thing wrong with that. In fact it makes TOTAL sense since we only have one. I suppose that my gripe is with what the language-shapers are choosing to focus on... man-made DISASTERS instead of man-made SUCCESSES.

If you want MORE of something, you need to pay attention to it. You need to give the attaboys and attagirls daily. I, for one, am getting tired of the "SHAME ON YOU'S".

On average, eight of ten of us are doing the RIGHT things, yet the movers and shakers only pay attention to the other two.

WASHINGTON — Gov. Mark Sanford will comply with a midnight Friday stimulus deadline and become the last governor in the nation to seek millions of dollars in federal economic-recovery funds for his state, aides said late Thursday.

Gov. Mark Sanford will comply with a midnight Friday stimulus deadline and become the last governor in the nation to seek millions of dollars in federal economic-recovery funds for his state, aides said late Thursday.

One more iditot driving a stake into the heart of free market capitalism. The cretins and teenagers are in charge of all of our lives. Welcome to the new AmeriKa.

Obama has only had 1460 days in office. He has accomplshed nothing except creating a socialistic system of government, the nationalisation of industry, and soup kitchens for everyone.

He has not had the time to deal with the real problems of the country due to the fact that the first Black/White president was busy establsihing his history and legacy. His second term will be different.

Please, he knows all of you are suffering and unemployed- 90% of the population. He knows that most of the banks are out of business and he feels the pain. But, you got your house for free, thanks to his mortgage forgiveness plan. You are living on food stamps, thanks to his food for all plan, and you work for the- oops, you are on welfare, thanks to his income guarantee plan for all.

Thanks to his legislature, the Constitution has been suspended so that they can better provide altrusitic services to the masses. Dissenters have been placed in labor and reedeucation camps and their wealth has been confiscated to be redistributed to you, the average poor AmeriKan.

So reelect Obama. He will cure all of your ills. If not, he is building more camps. He idoloizes FDR.

Finally!! A right leaning blog that isn't calling Obama the Antichrist and fomenting armed insurrection. There is hope for civil discourse in America after all.

I'll come right out and say it; I'm a liberal who voted for Obama, and after putting up with Dubya for 8 years, I've acquired an appreciation for the dissenting voice. So carry on! But, a lot of the stuff I'm reading on right wing blogs is scaring me. It should scare you too. Check out RedState.com if you think I'm kidding.

From a policy perspective I guess I should be happy. The Obama administration is pursuing policies that look identical to those from the last administration, even if they are named differently. It's become so blatant that even the New York (Obama is the messiah!) Times has begun to report on it.

But somehow I am dishearten by the disingenuousness of it all. Trounced, defeated, and chagrined, conservatives around the nation girded themselves for real change. Lesser pragmatists such as myself looked forward to intelligent action on technology issues, education, and future infrastructure.

It's all starting too look like a sham.

I wrote about the list of “shams” from Redefinition Accomplished to the first stimulus package here... Barack Orwell Obama